Genesis 6:4-6
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
There have always been giants on the earth, mighty men of renown, those who can draw a crowd and seem to be “better” than others. Many who are not among those giants spend their whole lives trying to fit in among them. But notice the state of things in verses 5 and 6; the world was so bad that God was grieved in His very heart for having made mankind. Is being a person of renown really something to be desired? Those giants certainly didn’t do anything to make the world a good place that was pleasing to the Lord. But if being a giant is not the right goal, what is the right goal? What does please the Lord? “The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy” (Psalm 147:11). “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” (Micah 6:8)
A Tried Stone 